The Four Families' Destruction, the Secret of the Su Family.

Soon, Su Yi walked over and bowed respectfully.

"Greetings, Family Head!"

Su Qingtian said gloomily, "Elder Su Yi, do you know why I called you here?"

Su Yi's heart jolted, but he still forced a smile and put on a puzzled expression. "I don't know."

Seeing him like this, Su Qingtian's eyes grew even colder.

"Su Yi, what the Su Family hates most is traitors."

"Under the Qingfeng Gang's rules back then, do you know what the consequences of betrayal were?"

Hearing this, Su Yi knew that everything had been exposed. He knelt down in panic and begged, "Family Head, please hear me out. The Wang Family forced me to do it. Please spare my life."

"Forced you?"

Su Qingtian let out a cold laugh. "The Wang Family's steward made it very clear. You were the one who took the initiative to seek them out."

The pleading expression on Su Yi's face instantly froze, and his eyes filled with terror.

From the moment he cooperated with the Wang Family, he had been certain that the Su Family would lose, which was why he had invested in advance. But the way things ultimately developed had been completely beyond prediction.

The Four Great Families had actually lost!

And they had lost utterly. The Su Family had not suffered the slightest loss, while only Su Qingtian and Su Yunqian had sustained minor injuries.

Su Qingtian said coldly, "You are the head of a branch. According to the rules, since you betrayed the Su Family, your entire branch must have its cultivation crippled and be expelled from the Su Family."

Su Yi was horrified when he heard this and hurriedly pleaded, "Please spare me, Family Head. I'm willing to bear all the consequences. I only ask that you spare my branch."

Su Qingtian's eyes were icy cold. He directly raised his hand and crippled Su Yi's cultivation on the spot.

"Men, cripple Su Yi's entire branch and drive every one of them out of the Su Family."

He would show no mercy to traitors.

"Hang Su Yi in front of the Su Family's gates for three days. Execute him after three days as a warning to the others!"

Su Qingtian's words were like sharp swords, stabbing into Su Yi's heart.

Su Yi also knew that begging was useless now. He screamed furiously, "Su Qingtian, you executioner! You can even bring yourself to attack your own clansmen, you beast!"

Su Qingtian said coldly, "When you betrayed your clansmen, why didn't you think of this? If not for Chen'er, and if not for the old master breaking through to the Void Refinement stage, the entire Su Family would have been wiped out because of you. Did you ever think of that?"

"To preserve your own branch, you actually dared to collude with the enemy. Su Yi, even a thousand deaths would not atone for your crimes!"

He paid no attention to Su Yi's furious roars and turned to leave.

The Su Family's guards dragged him out and hung him beside the Su Family's main gate.

News of what Su Yi had done quickly spread through the Su Family. After hearing about it, countless Su Family members were filled with righteous indignation and took whips to lash Su Yi.

The Su Family hated traitors above all else. What Su Yi had done was utterly unconscionable and extremely selfish.

He had originally been sentenced to hang for three days before being beheaded, but after less than half a day, Su Yi had been whipped until his skin was torn and his body was drenched in blood. He was beaten to death on the spot.

Yet the Su Family members still had not calmed down. They continued whipping his corpse.

Cooperating with the Su Family's enemies was simply too vile. If things had gone even slightly worse, it might have led to the destruction of the entire Su Family.

That was why their fury had reached its peak.

After several days, Bright Moon City returned to peace. After destroying the Four Great Families, the Su Family made no further moves, which allowed many people to breathe a sigh of relief.

For some time afterward, the Su Family was extremely quiet. Many people even wondered whether some change had occurred within the Su Family as well.

The Su Family's inner courtyard.

Su Hongyuan, Su Qingtian, and Su Chen sat together.

Su Hongyuan looked somewhat hesitant, but after struggling for quite a while, he finally spoke slowly. "Chen'er, you were still young back then, so I had Qingtian keep it from you. But your strength is sufficient now, and it's time for you to know the truth."

Su Chen narrowed his eyes. Sure enough, there had been some hidden circumstances surrounding what happened back then that he did not know about.

Su Hongyuan sighed, a look of remembrance surfacing on his face. "Our Su Family was once called the Qingfeng Gang. You should know that. Everything began with that girl, Ye Qingling—in other words, your mother."

At the mention of Ye Qingling, sorrow and dejection appeared in Su Qingtian's eyes, and his mood grew extremely heavy.

Su Hongyuan continued, "Your mother and father met by chance. In less than three years, they became husband and wife and had you."

"But less than a month after you were born, the power behind Qingling came looking for us. Those people were incredibly powerful—so powerful that it was unimaginable. Back then, I was already at the half-step Void Refinement stage, yet even the weakest among them made me feel suffocated by their pressure."

As if he had recalled something unpleasant, a look of fear appeared on Su Hongyuan's face.

"They took Qingling away and planned to destroy the Su Family. They believed that the Su Family had sullied their bloodline."

"If not for the help of a mysterious expert, the Su Family would probably have already been destroyed. Even so, I was left with an irreparable injury."

"To this day, we still don't know whether Qingling is alive or dead. We don't even know who exactly took her."

After hearing this, Su Chen fell silent.

As an old webnovel reader in his previous life, this plot seems oddly familiar.

Su Qingtian said with deep anticipation in his eyes, "I heard that a Saint tier physique might one day break through the shackles of heaven and earth and become the legendary Saint experts."

"Chen'er, if you can reach that level one day, you must bring your mother back."

By the end, sorrow and helplessness filled Su Qingtian's voice.

As a man, being unable to protect even his own woman was the most painful thing in the world for any man.

Without Su Chen's help, Su Qingtian might have lived in regret for the rest of his life.

Everything had begun because of him. If not for him, the Qingfeng Gang would not have disbanded, the old master would not have been gravely wounded and left on the brink of death, and Qingling would not have been taken away with her fate unknown.

Every last one of these things was connected to him.

But he also knew very well that he would never be able to bring Qingling back. His talent had already set his limit at the Void Refinement stage.

Within the Su Family, only Su Chen might be able to accomplish it. His talent was extraordinary, and he also had a powerful master protecting his path.

Su Chen said firmly, "Don't worry. I will definitely bring Mother back."

Although he had never met his mother, whether for his own sake or Su Qingtian's, he had to bring her back.

Hearing Su Chen's assurance, Su Qingtian nodded comfortingly.

Su Hongyuan sighed and said, "This may be the only thing you don't know, but I hope you won't do anything foolish. Before you have sufficient strength, do not go looking for them under any circumstances."

Su Chen smiled and nodded, but he did not answer directly.

After returning to his own courtyard, starlight shifted within Su Chen's eyes, and profound Dao charm flowed out.

In the next instant, his figure appeared high above the ground, and when he looked down, Bright Moon City had become incomparably tiny.

Of course, he would not merely pay lip service to finding his mother.

With a cheat at his disposal, he did not need to be like the protagonists in those novels, enduring countless hardships to search for her before finally rescuing her.